Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the recommendations in our Report have been prepared in a relatively short time , some changes will almost certainly prove necessary in the light of experience . |
| 2 | And informed Ulster security sources say there is no evidence that the fatal shots have been fired by a specially trained marksman or mercenary brought in by the IRA or that only one or two men has carried out all the attacks . |
| 3 | Urban population figures have been rising at a much greater rate than rural . |
| 4 | Underneath are extensive brick vaulted cellars , some of which have been converted into a most atmospheric restaurant aptly named ‘ The Cellars ’ . |
| 5 | Financial institutions have thus been encouraged to move into new areas of business , but at the same time have been regulated on a more formal basis than before . |
| 6 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 7 | His method was empirical : ‘ My results have been obtained through a completely empirical analysis founded on a conscientious and critical study of political economy . ’ |
| 8 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 9 | These conclusions have been confirmed in a more extensive study by Kleidon and Whaley ( 1992 ) . |
| 10 | High-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping have been developed to a very high standard by BGS . |
| 11 | Regional geochemical studies , including high-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping , have been developed to a very high standard by the BGS . |
| 12 | Anyway , the implication of my argument , and of the neurological experiments to which I have referred , is that the functions of the left side of the brain have been developed in a very special way in the human species and that this specialization is reflected in the universals of human culture , including the general structure of language , all of which are reflections of the fact that the left side of the brain operates in binary logic . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ We have had a string of complaints about rats from the allotments and they have been kept in a very poor condition . ’ |
| 14 | The older organic links between the council , the Labour Party and the trade unions have been replaced by a much wider constituency and coalition . |
| 15 | A pregnant woman and her three-year-old son have been injured in a head-on crash involving a stolen car . |
| 16 | That is exactly what has happened with that company because the costs of the base operations have been spread over a much wider network . |
| 17 | And had the latter been the case , Churchill , almost his only substantial political ally of 1936 , would in 1940 have been confronted with a very awkward decision as to whether to intern his sovereign . |
| 18 | Only the higher levels of secondary education , from the ninth grade onwards , have continued to expand , though they have been growing from a very low base . |
| 19 | Above right : a detail from the living room where the inevitably tartan curtains have been attached in a very attractive way to the curtain poles . |
| 20 | Consolidation and centralisation have been effected to a much greater degree than here , and so a reaction to their effects may be expected to be stronger . |
| 21 | Since the 1987 general election the ranks of Conservative MPs have been reduced to a very small number . |
| 22 | Classical and classicizing treatises on rhetoric and poetics are filled with descriptions of these linguistic ornaments , most of which have been codified to a very high degree . |
| 23 | If this does not happen the person will quickly become disgruntled and disillusioned ; worse , they may feel that they have been recruited on a totally false basis . |
| 24 | Throughout most of this period the focus has been on government records and then mainly at a national level , although in rare instances the issues have been addressed at a more local level . |
| 25 | When girls have been introduced into a formerly all-male top line , most of the boys have disappeared . |